Myron N. Ranney

Myron N. "Mike" Ranney (11 November 1922-22 September 1988) was a US Army Staff Sergeant who served in Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, US 506th Infantry Regiment during World War II.

Biography
Myron N. Ranney was born in Kensal, North Dakota on 11 November 1922, and he was a University of North Dakota student at the time of the Attack on Pearl Harbor. He volunteered for the US Army paratroopers when World War II broke out, and he became a Staff Sergeant in Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, US 506th Infantry Regiment. Ranney and Terrence C. Harris were both busted to private in 1944 for starting a mutiny against Captain Herbert Sobel, and he fought in Operation Overlord, the Brecourt Manor Assault, and Operation Market Garden, and he accidentally shot himself while cleaning his pistol on 2 October 1944, leading to him being sent back to the United States. He became a journalist back home, and he died of a heart attack in 1988 at the age of 65.